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Julius Eastman (1940), a founding member of New York's S.E.M. Ensemble
that performed works by avantgarde composers,
was also a minimalist composer who composed
Trumpet (1970) for seven trumpets,
Macle (1971) for four singers,
Stay On It (1973) for variable ensemble,
Femenine (1974) and Masculine (1974) for chamber orchestra,
Dirty Nigger (1978) for chamber ensemble,
the trilogy Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and Gay Guerrilla (1979) for four pianos,
and The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (1981) for ten cellos.
Femenine (2016) documents the 1974 performance of what is perhaps his masterpiece.
He sang and played keyboards in Arthur Russell's
Dinosaur L project, documented on the album
24-24 Music (1982).
His masterpiece is perhaps
the single-movement
Symphony No. II (1983), scored
for woodwind and brass sections and 24 timpani.
A homeless drug-addict, Eastman died in 1990.
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